TAVIS SMILEY REPORTS

MLK: A Call to Conscience WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31 @ 6:00PM The program explores the relevance of King’s anti-war position to the current U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the significance of the Nobel Peace Prize, an honor bestowed upon both King and President Barack Obama. Tavis Smiley Reports MLK: A Call to Conscience is based on dozens of hours of interviews with King’s friends...

NOVA

RAT ATTACK SATURDAY, AUGUST 6 @ 6:00PM & 11:00PM Once every 48 years, forests of the bamboo known as Melocanna baccifera go into exuberant flower in parts of northeast India. And then, like clockwork, the event is invariably followed by a plague of black rats that spring from nowhere to spread destruction and famine in their wake. For the first time on film, NOVA and National Geographic...

THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

VICTORY IN THE PACIFIC MONDAY, MARCH 29 @ 6:00PM & 10:00PM In this provocative, thorough examination of the final months of the war, American Experience looks at the escalation of bloodletting from the vantage points of both the Japanese and the Americans. Despite warnings that his country, brought to its knees by the conflict, might erupt in a Communist revolution, Emperor...

NATURE

CLEVER MONKEYS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 @ 6:00PM & 9:00PM Just how smart are monkeys? Their innate curiosity leads them to try new things, but it’s their culture –  the passing of information from one generation to the next – that teaches them much of what they know. Their young learn by reaching out with their hands to experience the world around them, grasping new...

SCHEDULE MARCH 25 – MARCH 31

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